Synopsis:Powerful home-grown Metromedia production, surrounding the real-life drama of Sally Stanford, a local street-wise Madam with a good heart. Sally (enigmatically portrayed by Dyan Cannon) operated a bordello and a bootleg alcohol business, before going on to be elected Mayor! Set in Baker, Oregon in 1921, the then fifteen year-old Marcy [actual name Mabel J. Busby] runs off to get married, only to be busted for embezzlement alongside her new husband as an accomplice; resulting in her unfair incarceration for two years at the Oregon State penitentiary...Moving to California (during 1927), Marcy meets a young stowaway, Acapico "Pico" Corumbo (Jesse Dizon) from the Phillipines, a likeable and spirited young man who becomes her loyal and trusted friend; both of whom thwarting the prohibition officers, who constantly raid her beachhouse property... Marcy then meets Ernest de Paulo (Armand Assante), an "Italian Smoothie," who manages to steal her heart; something the guarded Marcy didn't count on happening ever again... This is the remarkable story - of a truly remarkable woman who, using the name Sally Stanford, would later become elected Mayor of the Northern Californian town of Sausalito (1976-1978). Trivia:premiered 14 November 1978 and subsequently nominated for an Emmy Award in 1979, losing out to Backstairs at the White House - which received eleven such nominations during this event. One of the last films by Ralph Nelson (director of over 40 films, including: Father Goose (1964), Western Classics Soldier Blue (1970) and 1972s The Wrath of God.)Notes:For more information about this film, be sure to check out our exclusive interview with Jesse Dizon (who plays "Acapico" in this picture) which can be found here.